What Is the Purpose of Academic Social Research

question 69

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of academic social research?

• A)It solves social problems and finds which policies are best.
• B)It improves social programs so they become more effective.
• C)It invents new taxonomies and jargon.
• D)It creates fundamental knowledge about how the social world works.
• E)It predicts what future society will be like.

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Definitions:

Metalinguistic

Pertaining to the awareness and understanding of linguistic components, including the ability to think about and analyze language.

Morpheme

The smallest grammatical unit in a language, carrying semantic meaning.

Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish between meanings of words.

Syntactical Unit

A grouping of words that forms a coherent part of a sentence according to the rules of syntax, such as a phrase or clause.